Phase 2 - Preparedness

This PowerPoint presentation describes the roles and responsibilities of Community Clinics and Health Centers, entities that provide 10 million patient visits per year in California, in preparing for emergencies.

This comprehensive manual serves as a guide for developing an emergency response plan from the ground up.

This website offers a wide range of translated materials which address issues of emergency preparedness and response.

This article from the Contra Costa Times in California reports that Los Angeles County Residents are not fully prepared for a disaster.   Barriers to preparedness include distrust of service providers and limited English proficiency (LEP) in immigrants.

The syllabus for this course, offered at the University of Colorado, Boulder, is available online and provides links to a number of articles which focus on the vulnerability of racially/ethnically diverse communities across various phases of an emergency.

This study compares differences in crisis preparation, information-seeking patterns, and media use on the basis of race in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

This qualitative study examined crisis preparation, information seeking patterns, and media use in 964 Hurricane Katrina evacuees.   

This press release describes the results of a survey administered in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas by the Harvard School of Public Health on emergency evacuations.
 

This article describes the methods and findings of a study to develop a disaster preparedness program for low-income Latino immigrants.  

This study analyzed the individual preparedness of people in Los Angeles County following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and subsequent anthrax attacks.

This handout provides a checklist of supplies to include in a miniature survival kit for one’s car and is available in a variety of languages.

This qualitative study examines factors influencing evacuation decisions of impoverished, mainly minority communities in New Orleans who were severely affected by Hurricane Katrina.

The guide provides information regarding a number of simple measures which can be taken by older adults to prepare for an emergency and is available in English and Japanese.

This is a comprehensive guide to personal and family disaster preparedness.  It is written in Spanish.

This fact sheet provides general information on supplies which should be kept on hand to prepare for a disaster.  The resource is available in multiple languages.

This examines the link between culture and emergency preparedness. The paper reports the results of a study of two minority communities in Maine (the Passamaquoddy tribe on Pleasant Point Reservation and the Somali refugee community in the city of Lewiston). The study identifies gaps which exist between these communities’ and “mainstream” communities’ levels of preparedness.

This article describes the shortcomings of disaster mitigation efforts in Southern California to fully meet the needs of the region’s racially and ethnically diverse population.

This issue of the DiversityPreparedness.org E-Newsletter highlights Pandemic Influenza as the Topic of the Month and provides excerpts from an interview with Anna DeBlois Buchanan and Caroline Barnhill regarding ASTHO’s At-risk Populations project.

This audio file provides information on what to do in the case of a downed power line, and is available in multiple languages.

This handout provides information on what to do in the case of a downed power line, and is available in multiple languages.

This mobile video provides information on what to do in the case of a downed power line, and is available in multiple languages.

This multimedia presentation provides information on what to do in the case of a downed power line, and is available in multiple languages.

This web-video provides information on what to do in the case of a downed power line, and is available in multiple languages.

This translated fact sheet is designed to provide a checklist of activities for people who use life support systems to improve emergency preparedness in the event of an earthquake.

This translated fact sheet is designed to provide a checklist of activities for people with developmental or cognitive disabilities to improve emergency preparedness in the event of an earthquake.

This translated fact sheet is designed to provide a check list of activities for people with communication and speech related disabilities to improve emergency preparedness in the event of an earthquake.